Long-running horror series need to freshen things up to keep going as they head towards double figures.
A Nightmare on Elm Street went meta and then crossed over with
Friday the 13th in its seventh and eighth movies, while the latter franchise headed to space in its tenth outing.
Halloween decided to ignore all other sequels and have a direct sequel to the first in the series in its ninth movie (ignoring the Rob Zombie efforts).
Having released its final chapter in the seventh movie,
Saw attempted a reinvention with 2017 s
Jigsaw to mixed results, and now it s gone the full soft-reboot route with
Saw franchise (entitled
S7ven. With reviews for the project now coming online, we can see just how apt that comparison was.
The Hollywood Reporter s Lovia Gyarkye details an early death-by-torture sequence in which a cop is forced to decide between ripping out his own tongue or getting hit by a speeding subway train. I wish I could give a detailed account of how Bozwick dies or dissect the realistic nature of the tongue-torture device, but as a famously squeamish person I covered my eyes, reads the review. When the screams stopped, I looked up and saw a single, haunting shot of a purple-pink tongue. A tongue that I’m still thinking about. Do with that information what you will.
Availability
Select theaters May 14
Chris Rock stars as Detective Zeke Banks, the lone good apple in a rotten barrel who became persona non grata at the Metropolitan Police Department after reporting a fellow officer for murdering a civilian. (In perhaps this film’s most unbelievable twist, the cop served nine years for the crime.) Despite being the son of former police chief Marcus Banks (Samuel L. Jackson), Zeke is now an outsider, and it’s made him bitter, mistrustful, and short-tempered. His boss, Captain Angie Garza (Marisol Nichols), still believes in him, however, and puts Zeke and his rookie partner, William Schenk (Max Minghella), in charge of the case when the poor sucker who has his tongue ripped out before being hit by a train in the opening sequence the guy is played by Canadian actor Dan Petronijevic, a.k.a.
Spiral: From The Book Of Saw Debuts New Clips, Teases New Jigsaw Killer
Chris Rock and Samuel L. Jackson star in the new Saw movie.
After a year-long delay thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ninth installment of the Saw franchise, Spiral: From the Book of Saw, is just around the corner. And while the name may look a bit different, the set-up and the flavor of the torture-based serial killer horror movie franchise is as familiar as ever. Take a look at these clips of the movie Lionsgate has released.
The first teases the relationship between Chris Rock s character, Detective Zeke Banks, and Samuel L. Jackson, who plays his father, Marcus Banks. At best, things seem rocky.